November 28 – December 3, 2004
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Primary topics of this QHL Digest:
- Michigan Quilt Project Block — A member shares a calico-and-sunflower quilt found during Michigan Quilt Project data entry and invites others to contribute a memorial block.
- Egyptian Motifs & Quilt History Websites — A member’s find of a quilt-history website on Egyptian appliqué canvases prompts a request for more quilt-history web directories.
- Medieval Quilting Terminology — A researcher asks about the earliest documented use of the term “medieval quilting” in scholarship. (see the article on cotton and textile terms)
- Soldier & Veteran Quilts — Members continue discussing quilts made for injured and deployed soldiers, including an eBay-listed kit quilt.
- Eyeglass Case & Holiday Gift Finds — Continuation of the eyeglass-case product thread alongside holiday-season gift suggestions.
From: Beth Donaldson
A Similar Calico and Sunflower Quilt While doing data entry for the Michigan Quilt Project and the Quilt Index, I ran across a quilt with a Michigan connection that was published in Homage to Amanda, Two Hundred Years of American Quilts, From the Collection of Edwin Binney, 3rd and Gail Binney-Winslow. Turn to page 86. The center of this quilt is simpler, no applique motifs. It has 16 points instead of the twelve in the kit. It has a corner treatment similar to the kit and it has a border of eagles and a motif that reminds me of a rams horn. It has no sashing. It is difficult to tell from the photo if the kit is very dark navy and white or black and white.
To answer another question, The Henry Ford has a wonderful collection. For a real treat, check out this web site. http://www.thehenryford.org/museum/quiltinggenius/default.asp I believe they have about 230 quilts total. The curator of textiles at The Henry Ford is Nancy Bryk. I was lucky to get to go and see these in person and was at a luncheon where Nancy was the guest speaker.
Beth —
From: Judy Kelius
Thanks Beth! The Ford Museum certainly does have an outstanding collection, including Susan McCord’s masterpieces! I read in their notes that they lost most of their collection in a fire in 1970 and had to rebuild it – I wonder how well that lost collection was documented. I bet there were some outstanding quilts in it.
From: Kittencat
From what I recall, the major quilt loss (and it was a very major one) was one of Sarah Furman Warner’s applique masterpieces from the late 18th century (I *think* it was Greenfield Hill but am not sure). I’m sure they lost a lot of others, but that one was a major piece of folk art as well as a major piece of early applique.
Does anyone else have any details?
Karen Evans
From: Judy Knorr
I was at the Henry Ford Museum this past summer for two days. Went to the museum and to Greenfield Village. The only quilts I saw displayed were two in the boarding house in Greenfield Village. They were used to cover the single beds rented to the Hired hands and were very simple patterns although right now I can’t remember just what. Think I photographed them!. Last year when I attended the quilt display at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont I remember seeing a Florence Peto quilt on display there. It is a crib size quilt made with small nine patch blocks alternating with appliqued flower blocks. This quilt has been patterned by the museum (I think by Froncie Quinn) and the pattern can be purchased in the museum store. I just checked the book “Enduring Grace – Quilts from the Shelburne Museum Collection” by Celia Oliver . The book documents Electra Webb’s (founder of the Shelburne Museum) friendship with Florence Peto from the 1940s until Electra Webb’s death in 1960. The book says Florence Peto acquired many exceptional quilts for the Museum collection. I wonder if any other quilts belonging to her ended up in the museum collection. The quilt made by Florence Peto called “Calico Garden” is pictured on page 85 of the book and includes the pattern and directions by Froncie Quinn. Judy Knorr
From: “bonniedwyer@”
Joan and all,
Thank you for the wonderful links regarding this project FYI, I have b een in touch with Don Beld and volunteered to coordinate the Maine project We have lost 7 soldiers in Iraq and 2 in Afghanistan, so we need to get busy I plan to move into high gear on this after the holidays, but I would like
to know what other Mainers on the list are interested in participating
Whether you can make one block, a whole quilt, or coordinate the making of
a quilt, please consider participating We will also need donations of batting, and possibly muslin I look forward to hearing from you
Bonnie Dwyer
I usually lurk on the list, but had to speak up; I’ve consented to coordinate the quilts for the state of Ohio; Don Beld has told me he has a list of 47 names, so I have a long road ahead of me. After Christmas I will delve into this project with vigor. If there’s anyone from Ohio that would like to contribute to this effort I’d love to hear from you. Or, even if you’re not from Ohio and would like to make some blocks….. We might be doing a nine-patch version; Don says it isn’t set in stone that the Album block must be used. My mini-group just presented, last Saturday, a very nice on-point strippy style nine-patch to the family of an Ohio soldier who happen to live two doors over from my mom. I’ll come back with more details in due time. In stitches, Bev Macbeth
From: Elpaninaro@
This sounds like a wonderful project! I am too new to make a good block myself, but if anyone needs fabric let me know. I have been amassing yards here and there of all sorts of stuff- mostly calicos- and I am happy to cut some squares or fat quarters and send them where they are needed.
Tom.
From: Joan Kiplinger <jkip@>
For persons such as myself who are neither quilt-oriented nor familiar with quilt history to any great depth, this list provides us with so much information from dedicated quilt historians, researchers and collectors. Therefore it was an interesting find on http://www.quiltersmuse.com/Egyptian%20Appliqued%20Canvases.htm to read the effect of Egyptian motifs upon quilters. Thanx to Pat Cummings and those who continue to enlighten us with tales from the crypt [okay, couldn’t resist that one]. This brings up the subject of quilt history websites– does one exist which gives a dedicated directory of quilt history urls which feature new columns on a frequent, ongoing basis??
From: Gail Ingram
> > Second, a question came up yesterday while I was teaching a class on > medieval quilting. As usual, I cited Averil Colby’s contention that La Lai > del Desire was the first written reference to quilting in Europe (“a quilt > of two sorts of silk fabric in a checkboard pattern, well made and rich”). > Someone asked what the word was in the original, and was it certain that the > word actually referred to a quilt and not just a bedcover. > > Now, I’ve never read the poem. I assume that the word in question was > “courtepointe,” which was certainly used to mean “quilt” within a hundred > years or so of La Lai del Desire. But now I’m curious as to just how we > *know* that “courtepointe” meant “quilt” in the 12th century, and not just a > bedcover. > > Any thoughts on this? And has anyone out there read the poem? Thanks! > > Karen Evans > > Karen and list,
I was organizing, deleting old emails, and came across the email above, which I had marked to review.
I wonder if the Lay is really the first written reference to quilting in Europe. I just now checked my French poetry anthologies and could not locate copy of the Lay. I read French, though Old French is a stretch for me these days. I will try to locate copy. Surely there are French scholars and readers on this list.
Off hand, I would think the word is not “courtepointe,” but “contrepointe”is origin of the object for which we use the word “quilt.”
My little etymological dictionary cites “cuilte contrepointe” which it traces to Latin “culcita puncta” (quilted mattress/cushion).
Yet I wonder if there are not earlier English references in discussions/descriptions/letters of battle gear, architecture, estate inventories of tapestries/curtains/wallhangings that draped stone walls to ward off the cold.
I cannot recall the sources right now (Some days I think it takes a village to make a good sentence!), but I recall such references in Middle English and, I’m reasonably sure, and Norman-French/Anglo-Norman. Chaucer, in 14th century, mentions the quilted padding that went beneath armor in most casual way.
I know quilting technique was used to make straw mattresses very early (early 12th century). The word for this bedding was “culcita,” from Latin, meaning something like “cushion” today—actually “culcita puncta” (“puncta from verb meaning to stab, puncture, or “prick.” (Anyone who has ever seen the Bachs’ music might have noted the little “points” above some notes or passages (point/counterpoint). These were called “prikken.”)
In Old French it was “cuilt” or “cuilte.” Then the Normans and/or by then Anglo-Normands, who regularized the “q” sound as “qu”, referred to the same thing as “quilte.” These mattresses were sometimes hung on walls of Great Hall during day.
Of course, Rose Wilder Lane treats the European discovery of the Saracens’ quilted battle garments as one of the by-products of the crusades that revolutionized battlegear, permitting European knights at last to shed their plate armor in favor of the chain mail armor employed by the victorious Saracens, whose swift and agile horses permitted them to outmaneuver the huge battlehorses required to carry a fully armored European knight. She gives no specific sources, however, and in general tends toward a romantic view of the history of quilting.
She attributes the quilting of skirts not to the need to provide warmth, but to provide a sufficiently strong support for the jewels and beading that became a fashion in Spanish and Portuguese courts in early Renaissance as result of explorations of New World. In one of the letters of Elizabeth I, about her Scottish thorn Mary, I think, Eliz. mentions that she had told her dressmaker to add yet another layer of fabric to a silk petticoat because the “adornments” sagged and pulled on the fabric–thus supporting Lane’s claim. Much later period, of course, than one you are discussing.
Anyway, did anyone ever come up with answers to the query?
And how do I know this about “quilte” and “prikken”? Well, anyone who has ever taught Spenser’s “Faery Queen” to a class of college sophomores learns a few things to divert. The poem begins, “A gentile knight came prykken cross the plaine,” and then the scarcely veiled snickers ensue in the classroom. And, of course, earlier there is Chaucer who likens the young squire in the “Prologue” to the “Canterbury Tales” to the little birds that cannot sleep at night “so pryketth hem nature in hir courages.”
Unfortunately, when one ages and needs plain words like “needle” and “run” and “cat,” those words often elude them. I have found, however, that etymology precludes that with words that have turned naughty. To this day, I bite my lips to keep from laughing when someone talks about “coping skills.”
Inquisitive in a Low-IQ state, Gail
From: KareQuilt@
Just caught site of a quilt on the bed of an injured soldier in U.S. News & world Report, November 29, 2004, page 43. The article doesn’t mention the quilt so don’t know if it was family-made or made by one of the quilt groups making quilts for returning vets.
Also, on book TV today Willard Randall, author of a new book “Alexander Hamilton: A Life”, talked about “color coded laundry hanging on lines” used to send signals during the Revolutionary War — in the Boston area, I believe. The whole thing went by so fast that was all I was able to capture. Don’t know if it is actually mentioned in the book itself. Has anyone ever heard this particular story before?
Karen Alexander
From: Daniele Seyrig <d.seyrig@>
Here is what I found (using books on hand , I can try more if necessary )It is very difficult for me to translate the grammar terms from French to English Please excuse me if all this seems a bit unclear . I will forward the french text to anyone of you who might want it . From Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue franE7aise : Courtepointe : see couette. Couette (ou coite from latin culcitta wich gav e coilte or coite ) with an entry courtepointe: XII th c (12th c ) from coite-pointe wich was mixed with the adjective courte (pointe being the passed participe of the verb poindre) meaning a quilted coverlet ( couverture piquE9e) .Was also called contre-pointe in the XVIth c. (16th c).The fact that it could be both courte and contre wich seem to be oppoed as to their meaning comes from the fact that the stitches are very short and unite two opposite sides of the bedcover .
From Grand Larousse en 5 vol . Courtepointe 🙁 from ancient french coute , meaning feather bed and the passed participe of the verb poindre meaning to stitch or to stab .) stitched ( quilted ) and wadded bedcover In french in the Larousse the terms used are “couverture piquee et ouatE9e”
BTW I have a couverture piquee that is filled with feathers andwich I foun d in the south of the Auvergne . This one is a whole cloth quilt made of red satin fabric . I did not know down or feathers were used in quilted coverlets before I found it in the house . I knew of ederdowns only .Now i am wondering about the wadding used at the time . May I ask why you need this explanation . Are you working on French quilts ? Daniele
From: “Karen Evans”
No, I’m researching medieval quilts and am trying to track down the first use of the term.
Thanks!
Karen Evans
From: “Marcia Kaylakie”
OK, I know this is quite a bit off topic, but if you put it in the light that I need my glasses in order to quilt or applique, has anyone ever heard of a glasses case or holder that stands upright and can be put on a desk or table? I thought Levingers had done one a few yers ago, but alas …not in the cureent catalogue! Can anyone help with this one? I sure would like Santa to bring me one for Christmas! Thanks, Marcia
Marcia Kaylakie, AQS Certified Appraiser Austin, TX www.texasquiltappraiser.com
From: RAGLADY@
http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/crafting/article/0,1789,HGTV_3352_1978799,00.html Make yourself
http://www.weddinghelpers.com/personalizedgrmsmnleathergoodspg1.html Leather case $$
Gloria raglady@
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 07:22:12 -0600 (CST) | From: patkyser@
MArcia, I have a metal “gold” stand up eye case that sits on my desk all the time, looks nice, is lined with felty stuff and has a pedstal base. And is monogrammed too! Got it from Lillian Vernon about twenty years ago. Good luck! Pat in Alabama
From: “Christine Thresh” <christine@>
I just read a very interesting post on the About.com quilting forum. You can read it and see two pictures of the skirts (you can read the posts without being a member of the forum) at:
http://forums.about.com/ab-quilting/messages?msg36656.1
Or you can read an excerpt here. It was posted by Marianne. It tells of her historic find. She added an URL in PDF format (27 pages) giving some history.
Christine Thresh
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Marianne said:
Today I was in an antique market and the was a man with a lot of different stuff in boxes. I love to rummage around and found a big new sheet with a nice blue and white print that will work great as a backing. When i took it I saw in the corner of my eyes a piece of patched fabric (not a common sight here) and when I saw in orange stiched “5 may 1946” (The Netherlands were liberated on the 5th of may 1945)I picked it up very quickly. Some years a go I read a long article about skirts that were made in crazy patch work style and meant to become a tradional dress at the national celebration of the liberation. Most colors used where red, white and blue (our nation flag) and orange (color of the monarchy). It was even a political symbol for unity in diversity. That had to do with the way society was organised before the war but it would go a bit far to explain. Anyway, the force behind this ‘movement’ was a woman who was in the resistance and took in people who had to go in hiding. Her family was caught and she lost two sons and her husband. She made even a tour in the United States with these skirts. I’ll attach a photo of her in New York. The other picture shows two skirts in a museum. Mine is very simular to the right one. The patches are sewn on a foundation, the seams are folded inside and with white thread and a straight stich is sewn very close to the edge. (It wasn’t made by a quilter, I can tell for sure LOL.) But I’m very happy to have found this piece of history.
Marianne
…………………………………………………………………. .. In response to many posts congratulating her, Marianne said:
Thanks for the interest. It’s always nice to share something on this forum. The idea came from an experience Mies Boissevain had while she was locked in a cell waiting for a transport during the war, the situation beeing very grim. She received a laundry bag with some items, among which was a small shawl made of fabrics that were familiar to her (from family members but also from the resistance). This was very important to her but also gave a bond between the women when she shared the stories about the fabrics. The symbolism after the war was multiple, make new from old, rebuilding the country, against divisions between the people (religiously, politically) woman of all backgrounds would swap and work together. Mies Boussevain was a feminist who felt that the woman had a important role at home as well in the public life.The only ‘rule’ for the patch work skirt was the hem. That was made from solid triangles with the point upwards. Each year they were supposed to embroider the date on another triangle. It was quite popular during the first years after the war, 4000 were registered. I think very few remain because we didn’t really have a patchwork/quilting tradition. The black and white picture is made on the Women’s International Exhibition in New York in 1949. She even got to speak to Eleonor Roosevelt.
From: KareQuilt@
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category2221&item3763939181& rd1
I have never seen what appears to be a hollyhock-like quilt before. Is this a kit quilt? Anyone recognize it?
Karen Alexander
From: “Karen Evans”
It sure looks like a kit quilt…anyone with more expertise on this subject have information?
Karen Evans
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 14:14:58 -0800 | From: “Julia D. Zgliniec” <rzglini1@>
Dear QHL, The quilt is pictured in Brackman’s Encyclopedia of Applique, pg. 157, #80.48 Four Baskets, published in Needlecraft Magazine.
As I celebrate Thanksgiving this year, – I am thankful for the wonderful people quilting has brought into my life.
Regards, Julia Zgliniec
From: “J. G. Row”
In my collection is a cross stitch and embroidered dresser scarf on linen that is done in the same colors and design elements as that applique quilt. I wonder if they came from the same design house. If not they are surely from the same era and design tradition. I can see them in the same bedroom, “en suite.”
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 18:11:18 -0500 | From: “Anita G. Solomon” <solo57@>
FYI, On NPR’s All Things Considered today, there was a new report by Debbie Elliot on the Gee’s Bend quilters. The audio link and some images can be found at this link:
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId4184856
Anita/NYC
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 18:40:33 -0500 | From: “J. G. Row” <JudyGrow@>
The image of the quilt in the NPR link that Anita sent sure doesn’t look like the Gees Bend quilts in the book or the exhibition. It looks like a quilt that could come right out of the myriad quilt design books being published these days — right down to the color matched sashing and borders. It looks like a quilt that any one of the 120 members of my quilt guild could have entered in our show in October. I don’t think the Gees Bend quilters are as isolated or poor as they were before they were “discovered.”
But isn’t this what always happens when an isolated group’s indigenous art is brought into the mainstream? The art becomes self conscious and morphs into what the masses really want to see — safety and easy images.
Judy, aka the Ringoes Kid judygrow@
From: Susan Riley <blackeyedsewsan@>
Karen: there was a children’s fiction book on this subject that went out of print; I knew another HAD been written and just located the title. Redcoats & Petticoats by Katherine Kirkpatrick is the title. The following is a blurb from Amazon: “Basing the book on true incidents and real people of the Revolutionary War, Kirkpatrick recreates the actions of a Patriot spies begun by Robert Townsend and assisted by strong-willed, cool-headed Nancy Strong in the little town of Setauket, New York; Nancy used her clothesline and petticoats to signal the location, spotted by her son, of a whaleboat that would transport a vital letter about British battle plans directly to General George Washington.” The original book was hard to locate even utilizing the MA interlibrary loan program when I was organizing a bibliography on the American history picturebook. Susan Riley Hingham MA
From: “Sharon’s” <sstarknni.com>
I have a quilt that is very close to identical with this one, with the exception that the eBay one has added pink blossoms in several places – at the center of the side borders, and in the flower baskets. I must say that I prefer mine, with a little less pink. But they are alike enough in design and fabrics that I would say they are from a kit.
Sharon Stark Sharon’s Antiques: Vintage Fabrics http://www.rickrack.com
From: “Rosie Werner” <rwernerrconnect.com>
The Old Fashioned “Four Basket” Design Quilt is offered as a kit in Needlecraft Company’s catalog “Needlecraft Embroidery and Fancywork Book of Materials”. It is #C1186 and is described as follows: “With the easy-to-follow instructions we send, it is a pleasure to make this lovely quilt. The soft pastel shades in applique against the bleached background carry the very atmosphere of grandmother’s spare chamber. Bleached sheeting, size 81×100 inches, stamped with applique and quilting pattern, stamped applique patches in yellow, blue, rose, orchid, pink and green with blue bias-binding for edge. A real bargain for $4.49.” Unfortunately, this catalog is not dated. Rosie (who’s in the middle of a quilt kit project) from Minnesota ——_NextPart_000_0039_01C4D582.D43EB280–
From: “Kathy Moore” <kathymooreneb.@>
Happy holidays, everyone.
In reference to Marcia Kaylackie’s request:
“has anyone ever heard of a glasses case or holder that stands upright and can be put on a desk or table? I thought Levingers had done one a few yers ago, but alas …not in the cureent catalogue! Can anyone help with this one?”
My son-in-law has a neat one he uses for his glasses. It stands on his desk. I think he got it at Lenscrafters!
Call them and see if they have any? And let us know what you learn.
Kathy Moore Lincoln, NE ——_NextPart_000_0091_01C4D588.5F91B670–
From: “Marcia Kaylakie”
Once again, thank you all! I received many websites with stand up eye glasses cases and most of them had fleece lining, which makes sense from a scratch resistant standpoint. Didn’t find one in leather but am still looking. I appreciate everyone’s imput on this. I am just to the point that daily life doesn’t happen without the reading “goggles”, as my mother calls them. Unfortunately, I am not a good candidate for any type of corrective surgery, so must endure a while longer in this state. I coudn’t master bifocal contact lenses; they didn’t work well for applique on me. Hope you all are having a wonderful holiday season. Cheers! Marcia
Marcia Kaylakie, AQS Certified Appraiser Austin, TX www.texasquiltappraiser.com
From: RAGLADY@
http://www.weddinghelpers.com/personalizedgrmsmnleathergoodspg1.html Scroll down to the middle of the page where the stand up leather eye glasses case is shown… and where it can be ordered.
Gloria raglady@ gingram@ writes: > —and the leather one if you find it?
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 23:44:02 -0600 | From: “Caron Carlson” <carona@>
About the eyeglass case…. check this one out
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 08:46:27 -0600 | From: Gail Ingram <gingram@>
Well, this is it, gang: I will ALWAYS start afresh in replying to email!
A lesson that ought to be unforgettable.
Three things before taking my cystitusy cat to vet and replacing the glasses I lost yesterday:
First: the political commentary was intended to be private. Second: the personal commentary was intended to be private. Third: the material on M.K.’s work was intended to be private.
Ever had a cat with cystitus and no vet answers phone? Ever lost your glasses on same day? Ever had the sink stop on same day as above two? Ever had a skunk under your automobile on evening of same day so you dare not go to p.o. Until animal vacates premises—-at 12:00am! I’d had a lonnnnnng day and apologize.
As I head out door with yowling cat, clear sink, no skunk, and appt to select frames for new glasses, I’m crossing my fingers it will be a better day.
Am counting on it!
As one of my friends says, “Gawd!! <g>
Gail
From: “Charlotte Bull” <charlou@>
Brackman’s Applique book also offers a specific Holly Hock quilt from Mountain Mist on p177 #90.33.
I have the pattern for the corner Basket Block (somewhere, I just don’t remember where!) as I recall making it (with a few adjustments) for a Basket Sampler 12 years ago. The interwoven basket fascinated me. The flowers were quite unique too. I was not thinking “holly hocks” at the time but I can see the connection. Thanks for reminding me of this block.
Gray, cold, rainy, company gone, so I’ll go look for it and have some random fun! cb
Date: Monday, November 29, 2004 | From: Susan Riley <blackeyedsewsan@>
Karen, and all. I love to find a little tidbit to spark my interest and this did! One thing I have never associated the term ‘clotheslines’ with is wrestling and also utilizing the word as a verb! Both were a definite surprise! In Little Neck (Long Island) there was the Setauket Spy Ring, who gathered information about British troop movements, which they passed on to General Washington by an elaborate system of codes that sometimes depended upon what the women hung on their clotheslines. From a variety of sources I’ve discovered the color black was important-ie, black slips;handkerchiefs were also important, as well as the manner in which the clothes were hung.
“There was no CIA during the Revolutionary War, but the rebels had a very good espionage system nonetheless. Church bells would ring at odd hours, petticoats hung from clotheslines in odd ways, children passed “play” notes to each other … all of these being signals from inside Boston to the Sons of Liberty in the suburbs.” Joy of Trivia, Bernie Smith 1976
Enjoy your holiday preparations~Susan Riley
From: “Velia Lauerman” <velialive@>
Have moved to Hudson Michigan from Wayne,Michigan. The house was built in 1872. over 2000 sq ft. Planning weekend retreats. We can quilt to our hearts content this coming spring. We can take a visit to the Allen Michigan the antique capital of Michigan. Bought an 1800 crib for $45. what a buy. Lost my contact with you in August. Hope to be able to chat again. Embroidered Victorian Ladies in red workwith a different technique and used many different flosses in red. Have to create another as my daughter will not let it out of her house. Velia Lauerman 108 North st. , Hudson,Michigan49247
From: “Jan Drechsler” <quiltdoc@>
The e-bay kit quilt is described in part as:
‘Light scalloped to border.’ [sic]
Rather than a scalloped border, or rounded edge style, the seller uses this phrase to mean wavy or rippled border or it isn’t flat on the edges. Hmmmmm.
Thanks for all the kit info and Brackman pattern #.
Jan — Jan Drechsler NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS: quiltdoc@
Quilt Restoration; Quilting teacher www.sover.net/~bobmills
From: “Sharon Stark” <sstarknni.com>
Have posted to the eboard http://vintagepictures.eboard.com pictures of my 4 baskets applique, where you can note the lightly scalloped edge, and the difference in placement of flowers from the eBay quilt.
Select quilts tab.
Sharon Stark Sharon’s Antiques: Vintage Fabrics http://www.rickrack.com
From: “J. G. Row” <JudyGrow@>
Spurred on by Sharon’s post I have posted a photo of the dresser scarf I previosly mentioned which looks as though it could have been made to be en suite with the “hollyhock” quilt. It has the 4 baskets (plus 2 in the center of the longs sides) the same square reserves at the corners, and the same basic coloration. This was not counted thread work, but none of the pre-printing is to be seen, even after pushing stitches aside.
http://vintagepictures.eboard.com It is the last posted under the quilt tab.
Judy, aka the Ringoes Kid judygrow@
From: Laura Robins-Morris <lrobins@>
OK, I admit it – I’m cheap. I have those drug-store readers laying all around the house but never heard of or thought of a holder. But I’m way too cheap to buy a nice leather holder, and my first thought was – a mug, with soft lining. I have acquired several pretty mugs (tall and thin-ish with lovely floral designs, Dunoon Stoneware, made in Scotland, available in lots of museum shops and garden places), but I don’t dring coffee or tea. So I’m going to line them with fleece or felt (maybe with a little cuff over the edge to hold it in place) and use them for my glasses. No more scratched lenses. Thanks for introducing the topic! Laura in Seattle
From: “Lucinda Cawley” <lrcawley@>
I found two short diversions from the PA Turnpike on Sunday. the Allentown (PA) Art Museum has an exhibit called Toiles for All Seasons. One small gallery displays: Medallions in Antique Style, Monuments of Egypt, The Garden of Love, Firds and Squirrels, The Bird Catcher and Diane designed by Huet and Diane at the Hunt, Diane and Endymion, Pastoral (The Seasons), The Four Elements (wonderful dark blue printed on yellow) and Childrens Games by various designers. With two exceptions all of the textiles are mounted without plexiglass so that you can see them perfectly. The Museum gift shop has repro fabrics by P&B and there’s a catalogue, also called Toiles for All Seasons.. You can find it discounted on amazon.com. The second stop was at the Schwenkfelder Library in Pennsburg to see Candace’s latest effort “Lo How the Rose Ere Blooming.” There is only one quilt (a red and green late 19th century applique), but all sorts of wonderful examples of the rose motif in Schwenkfelder art and needlework. My favorite is a watercolor of two roses with the faces of young lovers kissing ( does that make sense?). If you are in the neighborhood you should visit. Cinda on the Eastern Shore
From: “Lucinda Cawley” <lrcawley@>
The following is from the Baltimore Museum of Art website. The laces are from the collection of the Cone sisters whose twentieth century masterpieces anchor the BMA collection. I don’t know anything about lace, but I’ll go and learn. Cinda on the Eastern Shore
March 23, 2005 – September 18, 2005 In addition to their world-renowned collection of works by Matisse and Picasso, Baltimore sisters Claribel and Etta Cone collected more than 200 laces from the 16th through 19th centuries.
Often purchased between visits to museums and galleries in Florence and Paris, these laces form an impressive collection in their own right with outstanding examples of Flemish, Chantilly, Valenciennes, and Point d’Angleterre laces, among many others. This exhibition will be the first broad survey of this collection, examining the different techniques and characteristics of each style of lace.
In conjunction with the exhibition, the BMA will host Lace Day on April 2, a celebration of the art of lacemaking with demonstrations by the Chesapeake Region Lace Guild, followed by a Berman Textile Lecture in the afternoon.
From: “Judy Anne” <anne_j@>
Christine,
Thanks so much for the information about the Dutch patchwork skirt. I have printed out the article referenced. I also did a search on nationale feestrok and found this wonderful picture of one.
Judy Anne
>> Subject: Historic Dutch skirt (long) From: “Christine Thresh” <christine@>
I just read a very interesting post on the About.com quilting forum. You can read it and see two pictures of the skirts (you can read the posts without being a member of the forum) at:
http://forums.about.com/ab-quilting/messages?msg36656.1
Or you can read an excerpt here. It was posted by Marianne. It tells of her historic find. She added an URL in PDF format (27 pages) giving some history.
Christine Thresh<<
